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title: Cords and strings longer than a short loop can strangle a baby or to… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics
description: Cords and strings longer than a short loop can strangle a baby or toddler. Who acts: Cords. A sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 22

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Cords and strings longer than a short loop can strangle a baby or toddler.

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**Who acts:** Cords · **What happens:** strangle · **To what, where:** baby

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:22
# text = Cords and strings longer than a short loop can strangle a baby or toddler.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 302-toys-and-board-games.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:amod
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	loop	loop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	toddler	toddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strangle** | can | Cords and strings | a baby or toddler |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:22`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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